CHESPEAKE, VA–Craft-Work Sound, Inc, of Chesapeake, Va, recently deployed their EV XLC line array rig for the 24th Annual Norfolk Jazz Festival, held in Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA, on August 4-6. This installment of the area's largest and longest-running Jazz fest included headline performances from the Guitar and Saxes Tour (featuring Gerald Albright, Richard Elliot, Jeff Golub and Peter White) and Brian Culbertson. Doug Arble, Operations Manager with Craft-Work Sound, has put their XLC127+ / X-sub rig to task at a wide range of large indoor and outdoor events since the system was purchased at the end of 2005. The rig made a particularly strong debut at the Norfolk Jazz Fest: "We've been running sound at this event for the past 24 years," Arble reported, "and this year sounded better than ever with the XLC / X-sub combo, getting our best reviews yet from the clients, the crowd, and the engineers.
"We flew eight XLC127+ per side, over six X-subs per side, stacked in threes. It sounded wonderful. The X-subs delivered the low-end all the way to the back; they're extremely tight, with tons of punch. I even backed off the subs a bit when dialing in Friday's headliners–after all, this wasn't a rock or rap show!"
"The engineer for the Guitar and Saxes Tour noticed that we didn't have the same system this year," Arble added, "he looked disappointed and told us he loved the way things sounded last year. However, after the show we asked him what he thought, and he had forgotten all about last year–he loved the way the new EV rig sounded."
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